Over the last two weeks, we’ve been treated to two potential Eurovision songs from fan favourite artist, Saara Aalto. As we know, Finland scrapped the former UMK format this year to feature Saara Aalto as the main act, with the national final to focus on the song selection. A total of three songs will be…
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We recently launched a poll to decide which of the currently selected songs are your favourites, but also which of the artists who haven’t yet released their songs are the most promising for you. Well, the results are in, and it certainly has been a close race overall! Let’s start with the results of your…
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Early in the Eurovision national final season, Finland revealed that they were scrapping the usual competitive UMK format to feature one special artist instead, and that artist is no other than Saara Aalto. It was then revealed that three songs would be released over three weeks, and then the Finnish public will be able to…
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We don’t know about you, but we’ve just been patiently waiting for Eurovision 2018 songs to be released! We’ve had a handful of artists been selected over the last few months with songs to be released at a future time, and we’ve also had a handful of songs been chosen through both national selection and…
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We all expected the usual UMK national selection process from Finland this year, but they announced early on in the Eurovision national final season that it would be Saara Aalto to represent the nation, with three songs to be revealed at a later date – and guess what, it’s now that later date and we…
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For many of the more modern years of Eurovision, we’ve seen a huge collection of predominately pop songs, whether in the format of upbeat tunes or ballads. Occasionally we see something that breaks the mould, something that stands out whether that’s for the right or wrong reasons is a different story! We’ve seen pop at…
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Earlier in November, we learnt that Finland would be sending popular Finnish, and now international artist Saara Aalto to Eurovision 2018. In a change of national final process, it was decided that the entries submitted to the usual UMK format weren’t suitable, and with Saara having tried to represent Finland on numerous occasions, it was…
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Traditionally, Finland has opted for a multi-artist national final, where each artist has the competing song they hope to take to the Eurovision stage. As such, we tuned into the press conference live stream expecting the artists to be named for the Finnish national final, UMK, however instead we got an artist announcement – in…
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It’s fairly quiet in the Eurovision world at the moment, so we thought we’d take a moment to reflect what has happened so far to prepare us for the 2018 contest. The biggest piece of news so far would have to be the host city announcement, and if you didn’t yet know, the contest is…
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As you may recall, we first saw Saara Aalto when she performed twice in the Finnish national final for Eurovision, firstly in 2011 with the song Blessed with Love, and then last year with the song No Fear. She has also placed 2nd in the Voice of Finland, and most recently, Saara participated on the…
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